The Other-Bodied Heavenly King

The Superhero Awards were announced this year, and Lei Yue won both my favorite superhero and my most hated supervillain.

Reporter: How have you gotten the public to vote you “Favorite Mutant” year after year?

Lei Yue: I make everyone afraid that something terrible will happen to them if they don't vote for me.

His name may be on the superhero list,

but people all say he's a supervillain, putting the public through one scare after another and doing more evil than any other criminal.

“I'm just an actor,” Lei Yue explained. “It just so happens I'm also a mutant with superpowers, and I look scary.”

Night rain drizzles down, crows wheel overhead, and the Strange Realm descends upon the neon-lit city.

Mutants in the public eye rush to explore it.

A young actor called a “monster” is putting on one spectacular show after another for the world:

Painted faces, conjoined twins, freak shows...

“I don't want to scare you either, but I can't help being this good-looking.”